Security Incidents in Palestine: Trends and Patterns (2002-2025)

1 Executive Summary

2 Background: The Conflict

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2.1 Historical Context

2.2 Recent Escalation

3 Temporal Trends in Security Incidents

3.1 Incident Frequency Over Time

(a) Security incidents in Palestine from 2002 to 2025

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3.1.1 Analysis of Incident Trends

3.2 Effected Indivudals Over Time

Figure 2: Total affected individuals in Palestine from 2002 to 2025

3.2.1 Analysis of Humans Impacted

4 Nature of Security Incidents

4.1 Predominant Attack Types

Figure 3: Most common types of attacks in Palestine

4.1.1 Analysis of Attack Methods

4.2 Attack Contexts

4.2.1 Analysis of Attack Contexts

5 Human Impact of Security Incidents

5.1 Casualties by Category

Figure 4: Total casualties in Palestine by category

5.1.1 Analysis of Casualty Patterns

5.2 Gender Distribution of Affected Individuals

Figure 5: Gender distribution of affected individuals

5.2.1 Analysis of Gender Patterns

6 Organizations and Actors

6.1 Organizations Affected by Security Incidents

Figure 6: Security incidents by organization type

6.1.1 Analysis of Organizational Impact

6.2 Comparison of Actor Types

Figure 7: Host State vs Foreign Actors in Security Incidents

6.2.1 Analysis of Actor Responsibility

7 Major Incidents

7.1 Top 5 Most Impactful Security Incidents

Table 1: Most impactful security incidents in Palestine (by total affected)

	Year	Location	Total Affected	Killed	Wounded	Context	Actor Type
1546	2013	Project site	11	0	11	Combat/Crossfire	Unknown
2020	2016	Project site	9	9	0	Combat/Crossfire	Foreign or coalition forces
2216	2017	Office/compound	9	9	0	Combat/Crossfire	Foreign or coalition forces
3234	2021	Project site	8	4	4	Combat/Crossfire	Unknown
1604	2013	Road	7	0	0	Ambush	Non-state armed group: Global